Patterns of Redemption in Virgil's Georgics

by Llewelyn Morgan

• ISBN13: 9780521155120
• ISBN10: 0521155126
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-14
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is a study of one of the most famous poems of Roman literature, Virgil's Georgics. By close reading of selected passages in the poem it seeks to understand the work in terms of the cultural and political upheavals that were afflicting Rome at the time of its composition. The poem, it argues, constitutes an audacious attempt to explain and justify the violent civil wars that had recently brought Octavian (the future Augustus, with whom Virgil was closely associated) to power in Rome.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
List of abbreviations	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Prima ab origine
The old man of the sea	p. 17
Aristeia	p. 50
Mirabile dictu
Ox and paradox	p. 105
Poeta creatus	p. 150
Postscript: sphragis	p. 213
Proteus and ¿¿¿¿¿Ú¿	p. 219
4.400	p. 223
Sparsere per agros	p. 230
Bibliography	p. 236
Index	p. 252
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